On Sunday, May 17, 1875, a three-year-old chestnut colt named Aristides crossed the finish line at the newly opened Louisville Jockey Club race track to become the first ever winner of the Kentucky…
On Sunday, May 17, 1875, a three-year-old chestnut colt named Aristides crossed the finish line at the newly opened Louisville Jockey Club race track to become the first ever winner of the Kentucky Derby, which had launched that year. The victory handed Aristedes’ owner H. Price McGrath the top prize of $2,850 .Lewis had been instructed to force the pace so that McGrath’s other horse and the favorite to win, Chesapeake, could take the tape.
While there are a handful of African-American jockeys currently working in the United States, there aren’t many, apart from the likes of Kendrick Carmouche and Deshawn Parker, who are operating at the very highest level. Alonzo Clayton and James “Soup” Perkins, for instance, both won the Kentucky Derby at the age of just 15 while Jimmy Winkfield, the last African-American jockey to win the race, won back-to-back Derbies in 1901 and 1902.
The truth was that the money earned by African-American jockeys – Isaac Murphy was once the highest paid sports star in America – had made the sport a more attractive place to forge a career and white jockeys were happy to draw the color line and reclaim what they, erroneously, believed was their domain.
The only other black jockeys to ride in the race in recent years are Patrick Husbands in 2006 and Marlon St. Julien in 2000, the latter being the first African-American jockey in 79 years to compete in the Kentucky Derby. With a family history steeped in thoroughbred racing, dating back to his great grandfather Tom Harbut – who was groom to arguably the greatest horse of all time, Man o’ War – Greg Harbut is also the man behind. The horse co-ownership program offers people from minority communities a more affordable and accessible way into owning a share in a racehorse .
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